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Happy National Book Lovers Day!!!

These days there an awful lot of idiots going around "explaining" at everybody that "the paperback is dead" "nobody buys or cares about paperbacks anymore" and "everybody knows that the future is all digital anyway."

Yeah, whatever, dude. Go back to kneeling before your shrine to holy Elon Musk and stop wasting the time of the rest of us.

Here are the stats for May of 2026. And by the way those revenue numbers for paperbacks are UP from 2025. For a business that is dead and which nobody cares about anymore paperbacks certainly do seem to be selling to an awful lot of people.

Oh, wow! The Dunning Kreuger "Explainers" League is *seriously* all het up and offended about this one. 😆😄😃

Please enjoy your tour while sampling our delicious trays of jumbo shrimp.

That sounds about right.

This seriously rocks.
Now we want a poster which shows a dozen of these lists. And to do a video of a dozen writers and librarians reading the lists aloud.

Who needs trashy exploitation novels when we've got the British royal family?

Acronyms used in discussions in book-oriented and "nerd" communities and which you may see on this page.
(Original by Julia Kitvaria Sarene with a few additions by Ara Bell and considerable reformatting and additions by us.)

About dynamics of reading and categories of work.
DNF - did not finish
HEA - happily ever after
HFN - happy for now
MC - main character
MG - middle grade (intended for readers under 12 years old)
POV - point of view
TBR - to be read, really, I mean it (at least that's the theory)
MBR - might be read (like TBR but even less likely)
TTS - text to speech
WIP - work in progress
YA - young adult (intended for readers over 13)

Famous books and serieses.
ACOTAR - A Court of Thorns and Roses
ASOIAF - A Song of Ice and Fire
DCC - Dungeon Crawler Carl
DW - Discworld
GOT - Game of Thrones
HP - Harry Potter
KKC - King Killer Chronicles
LOTR - Lord of The Rings
MBOTF - Malazan Book of the Fallen
ROTE - Realm of the Elderings
ROP - Rings of Power
SA - Stormlight Archives
WOT - Wheel of Time

Authors:
BS - Brandon Sanderson
CJC - C.J. Cherryh
DWJ - Diana Wynn Jones
GGK - Guy Gavriel Kay
GRRM - George RR Martin
JHL - Joon Ha Lee
JKR - J.K Rowling
JRRT - JRR Tolkien
MZB - Marion Zimmer Bradley
PKD - Philip K. Dick
RAH - Robert A Heinlein
SJM - Sarah J Maas
STP - Sir Terry Pratchett

Genres:
HF - High Fantasy
PNR - Paranormal Romance
SF - science fiction
SFF - Science fiction & fantasy
UF - Urban Fantasy

General internet terms:
AFAICT - As far as I can tell
AFAIK - as far as I know
ATM - at the moment
IIRC - if I recall/remember correctly
IKR - I know! right?
IMO / IMHO - in my (humble / honest) opinion
(With the longtime variant IMNSHO, in my not so humble opinion.)
IOW : In other words
IYKYK - if you know, you know
OP - Original poster (The one who posted the thread)
OTOH - On the other hand
SA - sexual assault
TBH - to be honest
TIL - today I learned
TL;DR - too long, didn't read
YMMV - your mileage may vary. In other words, this is how it worked out for me but I'm not claiming that this is how it will go for most people, let alone everybody.
WTF - what the f**k?